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We have officially relocated to our new home at HitFix. So come on over to the new URL — hitfix.com/incontention — and join the on-going goings-on. All of yesterday’s material is backdated there and patiently awaits, so feel free to continue the discussion there.

If you’re thinking to yourself right now, “Wait, huh?,” then fear not. All your answers can be found here and here.

You can comment as a guest at HitFix just as you can here, but I recommend registering for an account with them. Keeps it nice and organic. The link for that is at the op right of the main page, or go directly here.

This page will be up for a very brief transitional period. Soon it will redirect you to the new location and later on, all the content here will have magically migrated over.

Well, I must say I prefer this layout and design than the one at Hitflix. You have a lot of nice features and space here that are gone at Hitflix (the recent comments sidebar, for example, as Rashad pointed out)

There is, by the way, a recent comments section, but it’s on the home page of HitFix and reflects recent comments at all the blogs. It’s not the same but it’s what they have. I can suggest implementing it per blog.

I hope this partnership ends up being worth sacrificing a decently usable website for a complete eyesore. You’d think they could afford to hire a web designer or at least have some sense of what it’s actually like to visit their site.

Don’t think I’ll be a daily visitor anymore if that’s what I have to trudge through, but at least there’s RSS.

Anyway, it’s a site with intense annual growth. They’re doing something right. If it’s REALLY such a pain to follow us to a site that really did a decent job (I think) marrying the two styles, well, sorry to see you go. People like to cling aggressively to their vote, so if you’re vote is, “No, thanks,” well…like I said, sorry to see you go.

Kris, please, sorry for kicking the baby, but Hitfix is actually a design eyesore as Graysmith pointed out. My reading and visiting of websites do get affected by their layout and composition. You would think it’s “just the content” what matters but, then again, don’t most of us judge a book by its cover? I’ll follow you guys in my Google Reader as that will not be assaulted by the visual clutter of the hitfix site. However, someone high on hitfix do need to pay attention to studies on human perception, usability in design, and composition guidelines.

It pops up as “Recent Posts at In Contention” or something like that, so you’ll need to rename. I know when I originally added it to my feed I didn’t notice it immediately because of that, but it works fine in Google Reader, so let me know if there are any issues.

Graysmith: What do you mean about the body text? Is it really all that different than here, where there’s a photo (now slightly bigger and on the left rather than the left) and a click through to read the rest of the article?

The “FALL TV KICKOFF” thing will be gone soon, FYI. That’s just for this week. Then the scroll-down won’t be such a painful, bloodletting chore. :)

terrible webpage – errors and ads to skip…thinking you will have a lot less of me and many others coming to your site….difficult to navigate
sorry guys a big let down and I have been coming to your site since the start…in short THE NEW WEBPAGE SUCK BIG DONKEY WANG